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PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Consumers Energy says a downed high-voltage line was to blame for the power outage that left thousands of Kent County homes and businesses without power Monday afternoon.

The outage was first reported around 3:39 p.m. At 4:30 p.m., the Consumers Energy outage map showed 10,595 customers in Plainfield, Grand Rapids and Cannon townships were without power.

Mercy Health said on Twitter it was closing its Rockford campus because of the outage.